THE Dunbar Trent Class lifeboat Sir Ronald Pechell BT suffered significant hull damage last Saturday morning after breaking away from her mooring in Torness harbour and being washed ashore on to a rock spending beach in the worst sea conditions experienced along the East Lothian coast for nearly 40 years, reports David Linkie.
After a northerly gale of the previous 36 hours rapidly increased to storm force 11 in the early hours of Saturday morning, creating an extremely heavy swell that coincided with the spring equinox tides, British Energy workers at the nearby Torness power station contacted local RNLI crew members to say that the lifeboat had broken away from her mooring buoy inside the outer breakwater of Torness harbour.
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